Improvement in cotton-seed planters



F. M. BACON.

Cotton-Planter.

Patented Sept. 26, 1865.

N-PETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON 0 Q UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIGE.

FRANK M. BACON, OF RIPON, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN COTTON-SEED PLANTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 50,089, dated September 26, 1865.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK M. BACON, of Itipon, in the county of Fond du Lac and State of Wisconsin, have invented, made, and applied to use a certain new and useful Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of my said invention, reference being had so the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, wherein Figure l is a plan of my said planter, and Fig. 2 is a section of the same through the hopper.

Similar marks of reference are used to indicate the same parts.

Agitating devices have heretofore been employed for separating the cotton-seeds from each other and causing them to fall away from a spout or delivering-chute.

The nature of my said invention consists in a hopper receiving the seed, in combination with a series of revolving stirrers and a cen tral discharge-opening with a regulating and scattering disk; and I employ plows to turn the furrow in front of the hopper, and coveringplows coming behind and burying the seeds.

In the drawings, a a are the wheels on the axle c, to which they may be connected by a ratchet and pawl, so as to allow of turning the machine, but rotate the axle when the machine is drawn forward.

00 is a frame on the axle, to which the shafts b b are connected.

A gear-wheel, (1,011 the axle c is employed to rotate the wheel 0 and horizontal shaft g,

which is parallel, or nearly so, to the axle c, and is sustained in suitable bearings. At the ends of this shaft 9 are bevel-gears la that rotate the vertical shafts '6 2 which shafts i are each sustained by a frame, h, at the upper end and by a step, I, at the lower end. The shafts t are central to hoppers m m, that are formed with a rim and inclined bottom terminating in a vertical spout or conduit, a.

Upon the inclined surface of the hopper are studs 1 1, and the shafts i are provided with arms 3 3 that carry pendent stirrers 2 2, that, in connection with the studs 1 1, keep the cotton-seeds in agitation, and insure their feeding down the hopper instead of becoming clogged together by the lint that adheres to the seeds.

Upon the shafts z are adjustable regulators 0, that determine the amount of opening through the spout 12, according to the proximity of said regulator to the upper end of the spout n. This regulator o to each hopper may be raised or lowered by hand and held by a spring-clamp or by an adjustable nut. Upon each shaft 2' and Within the spout n is a scatterer, 19, that causes the cotton-seeds, as they pass down the spout a in a regulated quantity and separated from each other, as aforesaid, to fall broadcast upon the ground or into the furrows provided for them. I have shown two hoppers, each constructed and operating as aforesaid. The hunt ber may be increased or only one be employed.

r is a hinged frame carrying the plows s to open the furrow and the covering-plows I. This frame and plows may be raised when not in work by any desired device. I have shown the cross-bar a, cord orch ain 3, eccentric sheave and lever n, held by the notched segment to at any point to which the said lever 12 may be placed, and the plows and frame raised and lowered. I have shown a guard,f, over the wheel e.

That I claim, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is-

1. A horizontal hopper with a central discharge-opening, in combination with the stirrers or agitators, actuated substantially as specified.

2. The adjustable regulator 0 on the shalt 2', in combination with the hopper m and agitators, for the purposes and substantially as specified.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my signature this 21st day of July, 1865.

F. M. BACON.

Witnesses: I

R. HERMON, WM. M. SARGENT. 

